List of fictional cyborgs explained
This list is for fictional cyborgs.
Literature
Before 1920
1920s
- Jean Lebris from Maurice Renard's novel L'Homme truqué (1921).
- The Clockwork man from a novel of same name written by E.V. Odle in 1923.
- Gabriel, real name Benedict Masson, from Gaston Leroux's novel La Poupée sanglante (1923).
- The Ardathian from Francis Flagg's story "The Machine Man of Ardathia" (1927).
- Hanley and the comet-people from Edmond Hamilton's story "The Comet Doom" (1928).
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Comics and manga
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
- Deathlok from Marvel Comics (1974)
- Rom and other Spaceknights from Marvel Comics (1979)
- Beilert Valance from Marvel Comics (1978)
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
- The Egg Army featured in Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog properties, replacing the Dark Legion and Dark Egg Legion following a continuity reboot.
- Genos from One-Punch Man.
- Katie Cooper – Cyborg Studies
- Sy Borgman from Harley Quinn
Movies (including television movies)
Before 1950
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020's
- Cyborg Spider-Woman in (2023)
Television series
1960s
- Daleks from the Doctor Who series (1963)
- Cybermen from the Doctor Who series (1966)
- Batfink from Batfink (1966)
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
- Adam from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000)
- Alan Gabriel from The Big O (2002)
- Avery Bullock from American Dad!
- Bob Oblong from The Oblongs (2001)
- Bizarro Debbie and Bizarro Marco from Sealab 2021 (2002)
- Brother Blood from Teen Titans (2005)
- Cash from
- Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons episode "Future-Drama"
- The Cyborganizer from The Simpsons
- Cyberface from Saturday Night Live
- Daleks from Doctor Who series (2005–present)
- Dillon, Tenaya 7, and others from Power Rangers RPM (2009)
- Eddie and Lou from The Simpsons episode "Future-Drama"
- Gemini from Kim Possible
- Macker, the Safecracker from Totally Spies! (2001)
- Mechanikat from Krypto the Superdog (2005)
- Irkens (because of the PAK fused to their spines) from Invader Zim (2001)
- Agent Z from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000)
- Emperor Zurg from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000)
- Tecna of Zenith from Winx Club is half-android in some versions.
- Baxter Stockman from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
- Curt Connors from The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008)
- General Grievous from Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003)
- Hannibal McFist from
- Henrietta, Triela, Rico, Claes, Angelica, Elsa de Sica, and Elizaveta from Gunslinger Girl
- Heloise from Jimmy Two-Shoes
- Jeremiah Gottwald from Code Geass
- The Jokerz from Justice League Unlimited
- Jonas Venture Junior from The Venture Bros.
- Kraab from Ben 10
- Master Billy Quizboy from The Venture Bros.
- Max Tennyson from Ben 10
- Bannakaffalatta from Doctor Who
- Max Capricorn from Doctor Who
- Morticon from Power Rangers Mystic Force
- Motoko Kusanagi from (2002)
- Jaime Sommers from the 2007 re-imagining of Bionic Woman.
- Cameron Phillips and the T-888 in .
- Blackarachnia from the TV series
- Manny Armstrong from
- Gatling from World of Quest (2008–present)
- Grooor from Ōban Star-Racers
- RoboCable from
- Pickles from Futurama
- Sebastian Saga from Totally Spies!
- Skulker and Nicolai Technus from Danny Phantom
- S.O.P.H.I.E, Power Rangers S.P.D.
- Stan Smith from American Dad!
- Mad March, an undead cyborg assassin from Alice the miniseries.
- The Rat King Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Dr. X from Action Man
- Cyborg Alpha (Kaitou), Beta (Harry), Gamma (Ray), Delta (Hizuru Asuka) and Epsilon (Shun Kazami) from Towa no Quon.
- Kiera Cameron from Continuum (2012–present)
- WinoBot from Wonder Showzen
2010s
Video games
- Adam Jensen, Anna Navarre, Gunther Herrman, Jaron Namir, Lawrence Barrett, Yelena Fedorova, and several other characters in Deus Ex and its prequel, , are augmented with cybernetics.
- Amber Torrelson, one of the four player characters in Project Eden, is a cyborg Urban Protection Agent; her body has been rebuilt within a giant robotic frame after sustaining fatal injuries in a train accident.
- Barret from Final Fantasy VII
- Berle, Ruprecht, Shigeo, and Vesper of the Ten Wise Men from .
- Biological Engineering Project 154, the protagonist of the Thing Thing series.
- Boothill from
- Brad Fang from
- Bryan Fury from the Tekken series
- Cap'n Hands and F.U.B. from Loaded
- Captain Tobias Bruckner from
- CATS, the Main antagonist from the game Zero Wing
- The Combine from Half-Life 2 base the core of their fighting forces on synths, cyborgs made from members of various previously enslaved species. Whenever they subjugate a world, the dominant species of the planet is turned into cyborgs, giving the Combine an army that can be deployed in any kind of planetary environment; the most prominent ones seen are Dropships, Gunships, Striders and Hunters. With Earth as their newest acquisition, an unknown number of humans (mainly dissidents and Civil Protection volunteers) have been cybernetically enhanced into Overwatch Soldiers. Dissidents unsuitable for conversion are instead turned into Stalkers, heavily dismembered torsos with crude metallic limb replacements. Overwatch Elites are implied to have received more augmentations than ordinary Soldiers and various content cut from the game's final version includes even more radical designs such as humans fused into bulky, biomechanical powered armor.
- Commander Shepard, the protagonist of Mass Effect, is extensively implanted with cybernetics in an effort to bring him/her (Shepard's gender is chosen by the player; as such, there is no canon gender) back from the dead.
- Experimental Cyber Soldier Program, or Direct Neural Interface, which may cause the death of the test subjects, from .
- Cyberdemon, a boss in the Doom game franchise
- Cyborg, Cyborg Reaper and Cyborg Commando, cyborg soldiers developed by Brotherhood of Nod in Command and Conquer 2 and its expansion pack Firestorm, who later went rogue with the renegade Nod AI CABAL (Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform) to fulfill its world domination. All of these cyborgs are superior to their human counterparts, and the strongest of them, the Cyborg Commando, can even defeat a Mammoth Mk.2 superheavy walker in a one-on-one showdown.
- Cyborg infantry from Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath, utilized by Nod subfaction Marked of Kane, which, led by CABAL's reincarnation LEGION, bears a striking resemblance to CABAL's army in the previous war. The Awakened serve as Marked of Kane's basic infantry, Tiberium troopers as close range anti-infantry/anti-structure support, and Enlightened as elite anti-ground troopers.
- Doctor N. Gin from the Crash Bandicoot series
- Deadeye Joe from Contra Hard Corps
- Dr. Crygor from the WarioWare, Inc. series
- Dr. Raoul from Master X Master
- ECO 35-2 from Rise of the Robots
- The Electrocutioner from Batman
- Fulgore from the Killer Instinct series
- Gar'Skuther, the villain of Spore Creatures
- Genji, an advanced cyborg ninja who appears as a playable character in Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm.
- Gray Fox & Raiden from the Metal Gear Solid series
- The Grox are a race of cyborg carnivores creatures, that rule most of the Galaxy in Spore, and the main antagonists.
- Hung Lo, Lo Wang's evil brother from
- Iji, the titular character from the indie game Iji.
- Jake, from Night Slashers
- Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, and Cyber Sub-Zero from the Mortal Kombat series
- Lopers from Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- The Marathon Trilogy's protagonist
- Martha, and M. Blaster from The Combatribes
- The Masked Man from Mother 3
- Matthew Kane from Quake 4
- Maxima, a character from The King of Fighters series.
- Nathan Spencer From the Bionic Commando series
- Necrons, a race from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, are led by what seem to be intelligent machine organisms. The Obliterators of the Chaos faction fuse their weapons and armor directly into their flesh.
- Plant Contra from Neo Contra
- R.A.X. Coswell, a kickboxing cyborg from Eternal Champions and
- Revenant from Apex Legends
- Rex, a cybordog from
- Sergeant Rex "Power" Colt, the protagonist from
- Cyber Shredder from
- Spartans from the Halo series receive extensive physical augmentations, including ceramic plated bones in order to resist the stresses of using their MJOLNIR powered armor that can lethally injure unaugmented humans with a wrong move.
- Starkiller from The Star Wars Series.
- The Strogg from the Quake series are a warlike cybernetic race. The Strogg systematically replace their ranks with prisoners of war, "stroggified" and assimilated through the modification of their bodies with mechanical weaponry and prosthetics. The games Quake II (1997) and Quake 4 (2005) feature Strogg cyborg enemies in many shapes and variations.
- Steve Hermann from Shatterhand
- Super Soldiers from Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Symbionts from Supreme Commander
- Many of the enemies, along with the protagonist from System Shock and its sequel, System Shock 2.
- Yoshimitsu from the Tekken and Soulcalibur series.
- Vanessa Z. Schneider from P.N.03, who wears cybernetic suits that connect to her spine and central nervous system to enable her to shoot blasts of energy from her body and palms.
See also
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